>>23506134Taking refuge under the edge of a mountain as the blistering winter wind rages around them, squinting against the tiny flecks of snow assaulting their faces as they press against the equally cold stone wall, the world outside them being reduced to only a few feet around them, Shu being the only thing Luca can see and Luca being the only thing Shu can see... After they catch their breath enough to speak, Luca cracks a joke about how if they don't make it, Shu can eat his body for sustenance, you know, like in those movies, but instead of laughing along to his dark joke, Shu silently wraps his arms around Luca's bundled body and presses his face into his chest... With the blizzard howling around them, it was almost too hard to make out the muttered words of "I don't want to die"... Whether it was from fear of their situation finally settling in, or the unrelenting freezing winds, Shu's knees buckled and Luca could only kneel down into the snow bank with him, clutching onto each other, as if Shu was his only tangible anchor to this Earth.
